Kerala electorate has voted for ‘change of government’, says Shafi Parambil

Shafi Parambil, Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee moving president, has claimed that the State’s electorate has voted for a “change of government” alternatively of expressing “anti-incumbency” sentiments against the Left Democratic Front (LDF) authorities successful the precocious concluded Assembly polls.

Addressing the media successful Kozhikode connected Tuesday (April 14, 2026), the Vadakara MP claimed that the ruling Communist Party of India (Marxist) [CPI(M)] would not beryllium capable to “compartmentalise” this fashionable verdict arsenic the “consolidation of votes” by members of a peculiar caste, religion, oregon community. “The fashionable question against the LDF volition not beryllium confined to Ernakulam, Kottayam, Malappuram, Pathanamthitta, Wayanad, and Idukki districts alone, wherever the United Democratic Front (UDF) volition expanse each the seats. Its reflections volition besides beryllium felt successful districts specified arsenic Kozhikode, Kollam, Thrissur, and Thiruvananthapuram districts, which are considered to beryllium Left strongholds,” helium said. Mr. Parambil claimed that galore elder leaders of the CPI(M), including incumbent Ministers, would beryllium defeated this time.

“Even if immoderate of them manages to win, their triumph margins are going beryllium excessively narrow,” helium said. The Congress person claimed that the deficiency of assurance among the Ministers and elder CPI(M) leaders was evident from the information that astir of them had to restrict their run to their respective constituencies. Mr. Parambil besides said that the ground-level activists of the CPI(M) were unhappy with the enactment leadership’s opportunistic electoral dalliance with the BJP and the Social Democratic Party of India. “Their resentment is surely going to interaction the results,” helium said.